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On Tuesday Ning changed its
long standing
policy on allowing networks that show pornography and adult material. “Adult social
networks don’t pull their own weight,” Ning CEO Gina Bianchinisaid, and “our
ad partners aren’t big fans of the adult networks.”
As far as I can tell, at this time Ning has only one advertising partner - Google. Google
won’t put adsense on sites that contain “Pornography, adult, or mature
content,” so Ning was at risk of being banned by Google despite the fact that only a very
small portion of the networks on Ning are adult oriented.
The problem is that it isn’t clear exactly what networks are being banned. In the blog
post, Bianchini said that “adult social networks” are being discontinued. In response
to inquiries by some network operators, Ning clarified their policy today in a new blog post.
“As it relates to the Ning Platform, adult networks include, but aren’t limited
to pornography and depictions of sexual acts,” Bianchini says.
Examples of adult content, says Bianchini, include Pornography or images of sexual acts, Nudity
intended to sexually arouse the viewer, Graphic photos or videos and Fetishes.
Ah but wait. Examples of sites that are outside of the ban include Networks for heterosexual,
gay, lesbian or transgender individuals, Nudist networks, Networks for educational, medical, or
clinical purposes that contain nudity, Breast Feeding networks, Art containing some nudity,
Travel networks that include content on nude beaches and Networks promoting safe sex.
Ok, so nudist networks and
pictures of lactating breasts are
fine (as long as it isn’t a fetish). But basic nudity for erotic purposes isn’t. I
guess I understand where the line is, but Google’s definition is much more subjective and
general (Pornography, adult, or mature content). Is a transgender social network mature content?
seems like it is to me.
And how does violence fit in to all of this? Is there any amount of human carnage that would
quality as adult content?
Good luck with this, Ning. Perhaps that’s why Google turned YouTube
PG.
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and a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/square-is-new-round.html"a handful of minor
improvements/a for Google's (GOOG) RSS service Google Reader. Here's what's new:/p ul liNew color
scheme. It hurt our eyes at first glance (and we spend a lot of time with Google Reader), but we're
giving ourselves a few days to get used to it. No ability to choose your own colors, a feature
recently introduced into Gmail./li liYou can now hide "unread counts," if you're the type who gets
anxious seeing "1000+ Unread Items."/li liGoogle is introducing machine-generated "feed bundles,"
where Google tries to automatically group together similarly themed RSS feeds. We haven't played
with this too much yet and we doubt we will. a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/"Google Blog
Search/a tries something similar and it doesn't work very well. Even the automated news experts at
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one-line, minimally intrusive ones. So using Google's market-leading RSS service still
emdirectly/em generates zero revenue for the company. Though it does make it easier to view and
click on Google-brokered RSS ads in some publishers' feeds, which emdoes/em benefit Google./p
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Google Friend Connect,
the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to
signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data
Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, OpenID)
credentials on third-party applications without signing up for a separate account.
You can see this in action right here on the sidebar of Mashable, where you can join our
community using your Google credentials. You can also invite other people to join from within the
application, either by emailing them (you’ll see a list of your Google contacts) or sharing
the links on MySpace or Facebook.
Another example implementation is Qloud, the
music discovery service, where you can now sign-in using your Google account, and then be able to
save playlists and see which of your friends are already users. Additionally, part of what Google
wants to do is allow for simple implementations where webmasters can simply copy and paste code
for various Google Gadgets – like comments or reviews – to
enable social features.
More details about Friend Connect are available in the demo below:
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Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:
Google added an option to their photo gallery app Picasa
Web Albums offering you to lock albums. The option is named “Sign-in required to
view,” meaning only people you share the album with are meant to access it, after signing
in with their Google account. The pictures themselves – like
this image from a sign-in album – are still technically public, though the URLs are
probably cryptic enough to stop people from simply guessing them (it might still be better to
password-protect even the image URL itself).
In the past, Google already offered (and continues to offer) what they call
“unlisted” albums, but those were troubled with privacy issues from time to time. For
instance, in the beginning you could simply try guessing the album title (say, a title like
“Private”) to get to the unlisted album. Recently, Google fixed a vulnerability with
how outgoing links were potentially passing on the unlisted album URL’s authentication key
to third-party sites due to the referrer field. Also, sometimes sharing just a single photo
caused you to potentially share access to the whole album. In fact, this issue remains even for
“sign-in” albums: when you select “Share Photo" for a single photo in a sign-in
album, the recipient will be able to view your full album.
"An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around
a theme or purpose. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of
gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees
and sponsored presentations" - Wikipedia
I’ve attended two unconference
style events this year (Startupcamp/Barcamp)- and I’ve become a true believer of this
format. Since I’ve seen a lot of what goes on behind the scenes - here are some
tips to follow if you want to run a similar show in your location.
1. Get a team of kindred spirits together
This is possibly the most important aspect. The purpose of these unconferences would be to
bring together people of the same feather, and to begin - you will need a core of like-minded and
driven people. The volunteers who help run this show don’t usually look for
recognition nor remuneration.
Everything is fueled by passion.
2. Get sponsors - nice ones
Get people who really want to help, rather than take over your event. BarCamp Kuala Lumpur
had one rule about sponsors and it was that their donation limit would be capped. This was
to prevent any organizer from driving the agenda of the event. To me, this is an excellent
path for any unconference to take.
3. Set up the venue right
In a nutshell, besides the basics like ease of access, amenities, etc. You need to get a
venue with 3 or more large rooms (for the sessions), and perhaps just as important - a large area
to mingle. For me, a lot of the value I gain from these events would be the relationships
built, and the interesting mix of characters and conversations you will get into informally
between sessions.
Make sure all the rooms have an easy to use speaker system. Some speakers will have video
to show on their laptop, which fails badly if they have to play audio through the laptop sound
system.
4. Set the ground rules
Due to its informal setting, there are very few rules for an unconference. Common ground
rules include staying on time, and being considerate as to not over-run into another session.
5. Trust
Don’t bother vetting speaker material and judge quality. Unconference attendees vote
with their feet - ie. They can move on to another room based on their own agenda. (Speakers
- don’t take this personally - people will walk in and out of of your talk - many attendees
bounce around during sessions). Trust the speakers will do their best to contribute
to the event, and trust the crowd.
6. Spread the word
Unconferences typically run on a shoestring budget, but what it lacks in the wallet section, it
makes up for in ability to generate goodwill. Tap into your social networks (online and in
real life), the bloggers, and local interest groups. Local interest groups bring along
their own set of people passionate about a particular topic, eg. photography, or Linux - this
broadens your the breadth of your audience and their backgrounds.
7. Enjoy
Whatever happens, happens. Don’t take things so seriously. What you’ll
find is that when things go wrong, there will be more people who will step up and help you fix
the problem than people who sit back and complain. At the end of the day, everyone who
attends is there to share, participate, discuss, and learn.
8. Attend before you attempt
If you’re going to run an event, visit one first! For those people living in
Malaysia or Singapore - come to BarcampJB happening 6th and 7th December at MSC Cyberport
JB I’ll be speaking on "How to change the world with $25 - an introduction to Kiva"
on the 6th at 3pm. We have some pretty interesting sessions - full schedule here.
Check out the barcamp Malaysia blog for more
details. For those who live outside South East Asia, check out barcamp.org for a list of events happening near your area!
Do you have other unconference tips to share? Let us know in the comments!
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